The demons of A Darker Crimson are a fasci–
Hey. You’re not Marjorie.
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[Pointing] That’s not Marjorie. Who does she think she is, writing in Marjorie’s blog?
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Nerve of some people. [muttering]
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Hey, you! Lady! Are you lost? You’re in the wrong blog.
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Are you listening?
I’m trying to write something for Marjorie’s blog because she wrote book 2 in the Crimson City Series and I wrote book 4 and so now I’m blogging here and– What?
This blog is for cool writers who have cool stuff to say and you are so not cool. I can tell by way you type. Plus where is your cool hip graphic?
Graphic?
Yeah. Graphic. Where is it?
Um. Well, I got pretty graphic in chapter one, where this dead guy is missing his heart and then there’s these evil demons, only maybe they’re not really all of them exactly evil, unless of course you make them mad or they don’t like you or something. See, demons are actually pretty unpredictable—
What’s going on?
Marjorie’s letting crazy people write in her blog
but they did rip out some guy’s heart and leave it next to the corpse. There was some blood, too, which only stands to reason if you think about it, and later —
Are you one of those hackers?
No, but I subscribe to 2600. That’s where I got the info about how to pick a lock with a ballpoint pen, a safety pin (in my book, I used the prong from a police badge instead) and an acco-fastener, only they don’t have those in the demon world (remarkably little bureaucracy in Orcus) so my heroine uses something else. Also, one time at work I found out how much money was in the coke machine by pushing buttons in a certain order. But that’s not why–
If you’re a hacker, you’re in big trouble.
Right. Anyway, I believe you were asking about the graphic parts in A Darker Crimson, which is book 4 in the Crimson City series. (Marjorie wrote book 2, it’s really, really good) My heroine is a human police officer who has sex with an evil dark demon. I think I was pretty graphic in that chapter. I used the P word, too. Pretty bold, I know, but that is what that thing is called and—
You know, Marjorie is at least interesting in her blog.
Yeah. You’d think a criminal hacker would be more interesting.
I am not a hacker. So, later she almost has sex with a possessed vampire, but that wasn’t graphic-graphic. Well, it was when she broke his–
[Snicker]
Look, I’m a writer, not a hacker.
Hey, you there! The one hacking away at the keyboard! What’s it like to be a writer?
Well, pretty much like this. There’s these stupid voices that never shut up, but I’ve learned to tune them out and listen to the ones that say my heroine should go have more sex with the vampire. Which, in fact, she does, in A Darker Crimson, book 4 of the Crimson City series. Marjorie wrote book 2.
You don’t write like Marjorie.
Well, no. But that was kind of the whole point of the series. I write like me. Carolyn Jewel.
Hey. You’re not Marjorie. What are you doing in Marjorie’s blog?
Uh, Marjorie? I think they want you back.
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What? Hey, don’t go, Carolyn! ::sigh:: Oh, well. Let me just say that Carolyn Jewel’s book is on fire. Hellfire, Demonfire, all kinds of good and lovely heat. A Darker Crimson rocks, folks – and it’s the fourth book in the Crimson City series. Now, hang tight – I’m off to go find her again.